Perhaps if there were more women in printing and dyeing it might be a more exact science, but they are both - in my experience - considered 'men's work' here in England and possibly elsewhere in the world. Men are far more prone to have problems differentiating colours.

The inability to differentiate grey and green or brown is a classic one - but the alteration in the thread count and colour order is perhaps due to the mill not having the correct amounts of the colours required to weave the tartan, so maybe they put on a warp and wove with what they had, so as the keep the mill rolling, and named it what was wanted so as to fulfill the orders.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: